Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.
Interpretation
Creating comics for enjoyment leads to ultimate happiness.
This quote emphasizes the intrinsic joy that comes from engaging in creative activities, such as writing and drawing comics, solely for the pleasure they bring. It suggests that true happiness is found in pursuing passions without the constraints of external expectations or pressures.
In practice
During a speech at a comic convention, someone might say this quote to inspire aspiring artists.
It wasn't until I went to my first comic convention while I was in high school that I got to see actual comic book artists and original artwork in real life, up close. That was when I first realized that this is what I wanted to do for a living.
To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it's the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That's where I get to delve into the characters' minds and hearts. That's where they become living, breathing beings to me.
We don't experience our lives as plots. If I asked you to tell me what your last week was like, you're not really gonna give me plot. You're gonna give me sort of linked narrative. And I wanted to see how do we bring that into fiction without losing the reader.
I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.
I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.
I was very intimidated by the visual effects world. But I began to realize that you don't have to know everything. You have to be able to talk about story.
It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
People ask me: βWhat is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz. It could be called hip-hop. It could be called blues, or rock, or beat. It could be called techno. It's just a new idea. For me, it was punk rock. That was my entrance to this idea of the new ideas being able to be presented in an environment that wasn't being dictated by a profit motive.
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